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Wildfires in Kasunko

Kasunko, Sierra Leone, has had 62 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,385 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 83% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 75 % · 22 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

79,385
hectares burned
83 %
of its area
62
fires
952
km²

How many times has Kasunko burned?

Kasunko has burned 62 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wara Wara Yagal fire, April 2026, with 262 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 13× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 13× 26
62
fires
11
years with fire
79,385
cumulative ha
17 Apr 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Sierra Leone →

Fires that entered Kasunko

  1. 262 ha Wara Wara Yagal fire, April 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 1,046 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 906 ha Kasunko fire, April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 179 ha Diang fire, 29 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,502 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,793 ha Diang fire, 29 March 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 3,982 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,077 ha Kasunko fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,310 ha Kasunko fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 3,404 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 5 ha Wara Wara Bafod fire, 26 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 91 ha Biriwa fire, 25 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,058 ha Kasunko fire, 25 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,189 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,179 ha Kasunko fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 6,082 ha Kasunko fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 6,058 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 597 ha Kasunko fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,134 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 72 ha Tambakha fire, 8 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,027 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 195 ha Diang fire, April 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 83 ha Tambakha fire, 29 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 1,201 ha Kasunko fire, January 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,196 ha Kasunko fire, 25 April 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,208 ha Kasunko fire, 24 April 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 16 ha Diang fire, 5 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,147 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,566 ha Kasunko fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,556 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 226 ha Diang fire, 4 April 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 1,328 ha Kasunko fire, 4 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 1,281 ha Kasunko fire, 3 April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,290 ha in total · 17 days
  24. 63 ha Tambakha fire, 22 January 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,296 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 2,124 ha Kasunko fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 1,296 ha Kasunko fire, 18 January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 1,009 ha Kasunko fire, 8 January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,432 ha Kasunko fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,616 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 32 ha Diang fire, 4 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,978 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 1,455 ha Kasunko fire, April 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,558 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 945 ha Biriwa fire, 3 February 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 1,331 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 556 ha Kasunko fire, February 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,095 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 951 ha Kasunko fire, 30 January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,329 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 1,035 ha Kasunko fire, 4 January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 1,393 ha Kasunko fire, April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,384 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 259 ha Tambakha fire, 6 February 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 5,742 ha in total · 26 days
  37. 4,800 ha Kasunko fire, January 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 4,768 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 2,039 ha Kasunko fire, 22 January 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 2,725 ha Kasunko fire, 21 January 2018 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,706 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 2,282 ha Kasunko fire, 18 January 2018 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 1,595 ha Kasunko fire, 13 April 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,626 ha in total · 16 days
  42. 767 ha Kasunko fire, 9 April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,107 ha in total · 16 days
  43. 74 ha Diang fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 339 ha Biriwa fire, 7 February 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,906 ha Kasunko fire, February 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,893 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 2,975 ha Kasunko fire, 28 January 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 13 days
  47. 1,240 ha Kasunko fire, 27 January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 13 days
  48. 118 ha Wara Wara Yagal fire, January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 14 days
  49. 3,576 ha Kasunko fire, 22 January 2017 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,908 ha in total · 17 days
  50. 928 ha Wara Wara Yagal fire, 8 April 2016 1.0% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 12 days
  51. 1,030 ha Kasunko fire, February 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 468 ha Wara Wara Bafod fire, 30 January 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 286 ha Biriwa fire, 29 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 6 ha Tambakha fire, 29 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,037 ha in total · 6 days
  55. 1,852 ha Kasunko fire, 26 January 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,839 ha in total · 9 days
  56. 2,271 ha Kasunko fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,255 ha in total · 12 days
  57. 1,855 ha Wara Wara Bafod fire, 24 January 2016 2.0% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 12 days
  58. 1,709 ha Kasunko fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,697 ha in total · 7 days
  59. 634 ha Kasunko fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,181 ha in total · 10 days
  60. 2,158 ha Kasunko fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 12 days
  61. 1,941 ha Kasunko fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,928 ha in total · 12 days
  62. 2,351 ha Kasunko fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 11 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/openAfrica, geoBoundaries (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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